He and other convicted killers at the California Men's Colony help care for prisoners with Alzheimer's disease and other types of dementia, assisting ailing inmates with the most intimate tasks: showering, shaving, applying deodorant, even changing adult diapers.
On a recent visit, Mr. Engels, his clients and two Cephas workers were taken to a large room at Attica used for meetings to help prepare prisoners for release, a room with light blue walls, large windows and a stone floor polished to a fine sheen.
At the "exit", meanwhile, convicts do not benefit from Brazil's theoretically world-class laws on parole and alternative sentences like community service.A shortage of legal advice for prisoners helps to explain both bottlenecks.
He returned to Poland during the closing days of the war and helped liberate a camp for prisoners of war.
Parole officers are partnering with re-entry case workers who help prepare prisoners for society with group therapy and housing and job assistance.
But the people who tend to get most chagrined by iPads for prisoners, or help for the children of terminally feckless parents, are people who stay on the right side of the law and do right by their kids, even though it's a massive struggle to do so, every single day.
More positively, over one third of prisoners said they would take help for alcohol problems in prison (39%) and outside prison (36%), if offered.
Reforming our current prison system will help create positive re-entry experiences for prisoners, their families, and society at large.
Randomized controlled trials could be carried out in both groups, with interventions to improve work commitment for prisoners and to help with getting a job for LTU.
